Renoir was a shy man, and here it was necessary to paint every day in full view of the public, to work with dozens of sitters and sitters. But everything went surprisingly smoothly....

Classical painting and drawing did not appeal to him and seemed hopelessly outdated. The painting ‘Old Friend’ shows a touching story of friendship between a fisherman and a water dragon.

Historian Budnitsky and Sinyavskaya: "all of Rabichev's information does not correspond to reality, and is only recognised to denigrate the feat of Soviet soldiers". But there is another opinion...

Gubarev himself says that "misplaced irony" is solely the opinion of some officials who are simply afraid. This is not a fetish of the artist, just a desire to show that "a woman should be feminine".

He became a staff artist there, together with Victor Balabas, constantly responding with his witty and topical cartoons to all the events of those years. Without unnecessary vulgarity and blackness, and when it is impossible to do without them, to do it as delicately as possible.

After the wedding, it was time for the wedding night, and Francesca found a complete stranger in the bedroom instead of Paolo. And the most amazing thing is that in Dante's Divine Comedy, Paolo and Francesca's souls ended up in hell.